Fuel subsidy: More questions than answers
FUEL subsidy? Again? What fuel subsidy...!? Well, the Nigerian Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr.…
Nigeria Air and our many airheads
When a footballer sets foot on the soccer pitch to participate in a soccer game, it›s easy to decipher how…
Tinubu’s one year of oh!, ah!, oops!
It has been one momentous year of lament, gasps, flounder and blips. Since May 29, 2023, it has been from…
Mourning degraded NLC, drained pension account
The most recent of the numerous humbling outings of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC)…
Have you seen Tunji Alausa’s health tourists?
The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa, has exhibited the traits of great scholars. This…
We leave bad roads to build new ones. Why?
Telling of your desire for a road trip to any region of the country comes to your loved ones like…
Some Igbo wisdom for Nigeria
The Ngwò is part of the life of any Igbo of Ikwuano extraction. It is the ‘Kegites’ Tree’ of the…
EFCC and Yahaya Bello’s White Lion
EVERYONE cannot be the same. No, never. A man who calls himself Lion might not be as courageous as a…
Seyi Makinde’s Test of Kariability
GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State recently girded himself up to wrestle with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). This venture…
Electricity bands and the bandwagon syndrome
First, it is enough to wonder if those Nigerians who were hitherto fretting are done with their angry ripostes for…
Our Binance of collective disgrace
Opa Williams used to serve Nigeria’s most popular entertainment dishes. Those of us who watched entertainment through CDs would readily…
Madam Tinubu, it is no longer at ease
It’s no longer at ease... It never was and we are reasonable enough to understand this. Those of us who…
Our politicians and fluids under the blanket
THE Maragoli people of Kenya have interesting warnings about life. They say: “Stay away from issues of people who have…
Buhari: Ways and Means… of corruption
Finding ways and means of achieving an end now appears like swimming in muddled, murky waters. Look at ways and…
Opaque country, tasteless government
THE government of the day is tasteless and it is running like either a “feetless or headless chicken.” And so…
Those Paraga protests and related issues
There have been various kinds of protests in Nigeria in recent weeks. The country has witnessed street marches by hungry…
What exactly did Cardoso go to do at N/Assembly?
When a weeping child is pointing in one direction, be sure that if its mother is not there, the father…
Musings on Nigeria’s collective misery
Today is 40 plus one day already since we celebrated Christmas. Many Nigerians actually struggled really hard to make merry…
That Adelabu’s power talk in Ibadan
Chief Adebayo Adelabu touched base with home recently. ‘Bayo Adelabu visited his native Ibadan not as a son of the…
Let the poor kidnappers breathe!
Today’s thoughts are centered on the real kidnappers whose activities are giving the country the ugly names. We should first…
